[Openstack] [OpenStack] [Glance] Reuse the image id when recreate an image in Glance which had been deleted

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Wed May 22 22:00:42 UTC 2013


On 17 May 2013 02:38, Fei Long Wang <flwang at cn.ibm.com> wrote:
> Hi stackers,
>
> Now I'm running into an issue about reusing image id in Glance. Based on
> current design, the image id can be specified during create image by end
> user. But now there is a problem, which is tracked by defect


...


various services use the image UUID as a key for caches on disk.
Reusing that seems like a catastrophic event, not to mention a clear
security attack vector.

-Rob


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Robert Collins <rbtcollins at hp.com>
Distinguished Technologist
HP Cloud Services




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